ITK 4.8.0 Release Candidate 1 is ready for testing!

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.8.0 release candidate 1 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please take this opportunity to test the new features in the release candidate.

A more complete, detailed set of release notes will follow in subsequent release candidates.

Please test the release candidate and share your experiences on the mailing list, issue tracker, and Gerrit Code Review. Since GDCM has seen a major upgrade to the latest version, please exercise DICOM IO, and be on the lookout for regressions.

An Experimental build, which demonstrates how the test suite performs on your local build system, can be submitted to the dashboard with:

mkdir ../ITK-build

cd ../ITK-build

cmake ../ITK

ctest -j 4 -M Experimental -T Configure -T Build -T Test -T Submit

Notify the mailing list if there are any unexpected failures. Testing your own applications against the RC is also appreciated.

Congratulations and well done to the 31 contributors to this release. We would especially like to recognize the new contributors, David Froger, Cyril Mory, Dzenan Zukic, Ivan Setiawan, Jan Bergmeier, Rolf Eike Beer, Davis Vigneault, Gary JIA, and Alexander Hewer.